LynnCSchreiber - live blog from Family Planning Summit on 11th July

[MmeLindor.]

I have recently returned from Kenya, where I was blogging about reproductive rights and the issues millions of women have in accessing family planning.

The Gates Foundation has an ambitious of ensuring that an additional 120m women around the world have access to contraceptives.

Currently the lack of contraception in the developing world means that women are having more babies than they would like, and with small age gaps.

The consequences are many. High maternal mortality, high infant mortality, an appallingly high number or unsafe abortions, particularly in countries where abortion is illegal or difficult to access. Girls don't finish school because they get pregnant so are unable to help lift their families out of poverty.

The UK and the Gates Foundation are hosting a summit this month to raise awareness and funds to fight this issue.

I will, along with many other bloggers who were on the trip, be blogging live from London.

If you have any questions, post them here and I'll try to get answers for you.

You can see what I've been doing in Kenya on the blog: www.saltandcaramel.com

Let's walk forwards together into better lives for women and children around the world

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will add more as I get them

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this is the guy I met at the summit David Olsen - he has written about faith based groups and family planning. Might be of interest to you.

That's encouraging to see MmeLindor

This is very encouraging indeed. I heard Melinda Gates interviewed on Women's Hour, and a Kenyan healthcare worker too, who was extremely convincing (they both were) on why this is an uncontroversial issue.

Really good work.